Browsing by Subject "Women"
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(2012-07-16)Framed as an instrumental case study, the purpose of this investigation was to examine the challenges women face and the experiences that women have as faculty members in academia. Data was collection by using a qualitative ...
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In this paper, I will be applying María Lugones theory of “World-Traveling”, “Arrogant Perception”, and “Decolonial Feminism” to the experiences of minority faculty-specifically women faculty of color- in American institutions ...
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(2013-05-03)Since the integration of women into the United States armed forces, servicemen have been expected to be the fighters while servicewomen largely occupied safe or nurturing support roles as dictated by American society at ...
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(2020-07-15)The purpose of this dissertation was to understand how immigrant women learn to be entrepreneurs in the United States through a socio-cultural and transnational feminist conceptual framework. This framework connects culture ...
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(2015-09-25)Throughout history, the roles of men and women have been sharply divided due to in part each gender’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as the customs and beliefs of the various cultures in which they resided. Although men ...
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(2019-05-01)This poster explores the hairstyles and hair stories of Black women in America. The images follow a historical chronology from the legacy of slavery to these contemporary times. Black women have both struggled to conform ...
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(2012-11-30)This study seeks to explore the predictors of female project managers’ salary in the construction industry, and to analyze their impacts on determining the salary. Experience, age, marital status, motherhood, having children ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The purpose of this study was to investigate some determinants of women's choice of traditional or nontraditional occupations. Of particular interest as a predictor was identity status on the Dellas Identity Status ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)The central purpose of this study was to develop a model for implementing a displaced homemaker program within an institution of higher education. The development of this model was based on: 1) a review of related literature; ...
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(2012-10-19)This study explores the paradoxical nature of cultural norms of feminine perfection and the strategies women employ to manage those paradoxes. Following an analysis of the cultural discourses surrounding women and perfection, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)Purpose: The purpose of this was to identify personality characteristics of professional female workers in business occupations that are traditionally dominated in number by men. The following objectives were formulated ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The major goal of this research is to analyze the labor experiences of mature women through the empirical examination of their mobility between occupational sectors defined on the basis of sex composition. The basis of ...
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(2012-07-16)This dissertation focuses on novels and films produced in the second half of the twentieth century that critique traditional notions of home in contemporary America to expand on the large body of work on American domesticity ...
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Japan is currently facing a population decline and other large demographic shifts. Many Japanese people are choosing to delay marriage (or not get married at all), ultimately resulting in a lower birth rate and an aging ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The purpose of this study was to determine whether a woman's rapid adjustment to retirement could be predicted. A review of previous literature found a large number of variables, of both an interpersonal and intrapersonal ...
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(2012-02-14)This dissertation focuses on the nature of governance of the urban poor and examines the 'behind the scene' politics as well as the 'side effects' of a recent good governance project designed to serve six million poor ...
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(2019-05-01)This poster explores the depiction of Muslim women in film and on television. Hollywood has often portrayed Muslim women as angry, insensitive mothers, sisters, and daughters in dramas such as The Bodyguard and American ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-concept and selected physical characteristics among female varsity athletes and non-participants. The specific objectives of this investigation ...
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(2009-05-15)African American Baptist churches are not known as bastions of sexual equality. The dominance of males in the pulpit and the conservative and literal interpretation of the Bible often support this idea. African American ...